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Kelton W. McMahon Curriculum Vitae [email protected] (860) 460-7367

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Kelton Wells McMahon, Ph.D. [email protected]

University of California, Santa Cruz Phone: (860) 460-7367 Ocean Sciences Department Fax: (831) 459-4882 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Webpage: https://keltonmcmahon.sites.ucsc.edu Education 2011 Ph.D. (Biological Oceanography) Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography: Applied Ocean Science and Engineering

Dissertation Title: “Functional connectivity of coral reef fishes in a tropical seascape assessed by compound-specific stable isotope analyses.” Advisor: Dr. Simon Thorrold (Biological Oceanography)

2005 B.Sc. (Biology) Bates College, Summa Cum Laude Honors Thesis Title: “The impact of a changing food supply on Arctic benthos: digestibility

of ice algae and phytoplankton” Advisors: Dr. William Ambrose Jr. (Biology) and Dr. Beverly Johnson (Geology)

Professional Appointments 2014 – present Faculty Lecturer: Ocean Sciences Department, University of California,

Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA 2014 - present Postdoctoral Scholar: Keck Sciences Department, Claremont-McKenna

College, Claremont, CA USA Supervisor: Dr. Branwen Williams 2013 - present Postdoctoral Scholar: Ocean Sciences Department, University of

California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA Supervisors: Dr. Mathew McCarthy and Dr. Thomas Guilderson 2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow: Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University

of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Supervisors: Dr. Michael Berumen (KAUST) and Dr. Simon Thorrold (WHOI)

Publications 16. McMahon KW, Elsdon T, Thorrold SR, McCarthy M (in press). Trophic discrimination of

nitrogen stable isotopes in amino acids varies with diet quality in a marine fish. Limnology and Oceanography


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15. McMahon KW, Polito M, Abel S, McCarthy MD, Thorrold SR (in press) Carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation of amino acids in an avian marine predator, the Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua). Ecology and Evolution

14. Schiff JT, Batista F, Sherwood OA, Guilderson TP, Hill TM, Ravelo AC, McMahon KW,

McCarthy MD (2014) Compound specific amino acid δ13C patterns in a deep-sea proteinaceous coral: implications for reconstructing detailed δ13C records of exported primary production. Marine Chemistry 166: 82-91

13. McMahon KW, Hamady L, Thorrold SR (2013) Ocean ecogeochemistry – A review.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 51:327-374 12. McMahon KW, Hamady L, Thorrold SR (2013) A review of ecogeochemistry approaches to

estimating movements of marine animals. Limnology and Oceanography 58:697-714 11. McMahon KW, Berumen ML, Thorrold SR (2012) Linking habitat mosaics and connectivity in

a coral reef seascape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109:15372-15376 10. McMahon KW, Berumen ML, Mateo I, Elsdon TS, Thorrold SR (2011) Carbon isotopes in

otolith amino acids identify residency of juvenile snapper (Family: Lutjanidae) in coastal nurseries. Coral Reefs 30:1135-1145 (2011 Best Paper Award finalist)

9. McMahon KW, Fogel ML, Johnson BJ, Houghton LA, Thorrold SR (2011) A new method to

reconstruct fish diet and movement patterns from δ13C values in otolith amino acids. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68:1330-1340

8. McMahon KW, Fogel ML, Elsdon T, Thorrold SR (2010) Carbon isotope fractionation of

amino acids in fish muscle reflects biosynthesis and isotopic routing from dietary protein. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1132-1141

7. Elsdon T, Ayvazian S, McMahon KW, Thorrold SR (2010) Experimental evaluation of stable

isotope fractionation in fish muscle and otoliths. Marine Ecology Progress Series 408:195-205

6. Graham BS, Koch PL, Newsome SD, McMahon KW, and Aurioles D (2009) Using isoscapes

to trace the movements and foraging behavior of top predators in oceanic ecosystems. In Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping (eds. J. West, G. J. Bowen, T. E. Dawson, K. P. Tu). pp. 299-318, Springer, New York

5. Skomal GB, Zeeman SI, Chisholm JH, Summers EL, Walsh HJ, McMahon KW, Thorrold SR.

(2009) Mesopelagic trans-equatorial migrations by basking sharks in the western Atlantic Ocean. Current Biology 19:1019-1022


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4. Carroll M, Johnson B, Henkes G, McMahon KW, Voronkov A, Ambrose W, Denisenko S. (2009). Bivalves as indicators of environmental variation and potential anthropogenic impacts in the southern Barents Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 59:193-206

3. Ambrose WG, Carroll ML, Greenacre M, Thorrold SR, McMahon KW. (2006) Variation in

bivalve growth in a Norwegian high-Arctic fjord: Evidence for local- and large-scale climatic forcing. Global Change Biology 12:1595-1607

2. McMahon KW, Ambrose WG, Johnson BJ, Sun M-Y, Lopez GR, Clough LM, Carroll ML

(2006) Benthic community response to ice algae and phytoplankton in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310:1-14 (Issue’s feature article)

1. McMahon KW, Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG. (2005). Diet and movement of the killifish,

Fundulus heteroclitus, in a Maine salt marsh assessed using gut contents and stable isotope analyses. Estuaries 28:966-973

Publications in review, submitted and near completion, a. McMahon KW, Reynolds M, Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG, Clough LM (in review) Terrestrial

organic matter fuels Arctic coastal lagoon food webs. PLOS One b. McMahon KW, Thorrold SR, Houghton LA, Berumen ML (in review) Tracing carbon flow

through food webs in tropical seascapes: a compound-specific carbon isotope approach. Oecologia

c. McMahon KW, Guilderson TP, Sherwood OA, Larsen T, McCarthy MD (submitted)

Millennial-scale plankton regime shifts in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean. Intended Science

Research Grants and Fellowships 2012 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship research

grant ($25,000) 2008 International Society for Reef Studies/Ocean Conservancy Coral Reef Research Fellowship

($14,546) 2008 Ocean Life Institute Student Research Grant ($2,340) 2008 Isoscapes Conference Travel Grant ($400) 2006-9 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ($121,500) 2005-6 Ocean Life Fellowship ($28,446) 2005 Howard Hughes Travel Grant ($500) 2004-5 Howard Hughes Summer Fellowship ($3,000) 2004 Bates College Student Research Grant ($3,000) 2004 Howard Hughes Student-Faculty Research Grant ($12,000) 2004 Howard Hughes Travel Grant ($500) 2003 Bates College Student Research Grant ($3,000)


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Academic Honors and Awards 2011 Coral Reefs Volume 30 Best Paper Award finalist 2009 Best Student Paper Award at the 4th International Otolith Symposium 2009 Sally Richardson Best Student Paper Award at the 33rd Annual Larval Fish Conference 2005 Summa Cum Laude at Bates College 2005 Honors Distinction in Biology at Bates College 2005 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society 2001-5 Dean’s Honors List at Bates College (8 consecutive semesters) 2001 Arthur Crafts Award Teaching Experience 2015 Guest Lecturer, Claremont-McKenna College, EA 52: Environmental Science, Policy

and Politics, introductory undergraduates (45 students) 2014 Instructor, UC-Santa Cruz, OCEA-01: The Oceans, introductory undergraduates (200

students), Overall teaching evaluation 4.6 out of 5 (62% response rate) 2014 Co-Instructor, University of Utah, Isotopes in Spatial Ecology and Biogeochemistry

(SPATIAL Short Course), graduate students (30 students) 2014 Guest Lecturer, UC-Merced, ES291: Environmental Systems Seminar, graduate

students (45 students) 2013 Guest Lecturer, UC-Santa Cruz, OCEA-290J: Topics in Marine Organic Geochemistry,

multiple lectures for graduate students (15 students) 2012 Guest Lecturer, Bates College, Bio313: Marine Ecology, advanced undergraduates (15

students) 2012 Guest Lecturer, Bates College, Geo340: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, advanced

undergraduates (12 students) 2012 Guest Lecturer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, MarSE 221:

Marine Life, graduate students (20 students) 2010 Guest Lecturer, Sea Education Association, advanced undergraduates (25 students) 2010 Teaching Assistant, MIT/WHOI Joint Program: 7.43: Biological Oceanography, graduate

students (15 students) 2010 Guest Lecturer, Connecticut College: Biology/Botany 294: Seminar Series, advanced

undergraduates (25 students) 2009 Co-Instructor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Developed and co-taught three

week course “Human Impacts on the Marine Environment,” advanced undergraduates (5 students)

2008 Guest Lecturer, Mullen-Hall Elementary School: Multiple lessons on ocean science, Elementary School

2008 Guest Lecturer, Brown University: BIOL1880: Comparative Biology of Vertebrates, advanced undergraduates

2007 Guest Lecturer, Codman Academy: Marine Biology Course, high school students (20 students)

2005 Co-Instructor, Hillview Head Start Program, Lewiston, ME, developed and taught afterschool activity program for K-12 Head Start Program (35 students)


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2004-5 Technical Writing Assistant, Bates College: Biological Principles, Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Biology, undergraduate students

2004-5 Academic Tutor, Bates College: Organic Chemistry I and II, Calculus I and II, Biological Principles, Ecology, undergraduate students

2003-5 Teaching Assistant, Bates College: Organic Chemistry I and II, Biological Principles, Ecology, undergraduate students

Academic Advising 2014 Undergraduate mentor: Kevin Miles (West Valley College), Community College

Research Internship for Scientific Engagement CC-RISE 2014 ASLO mentor: Elizabeth Hetherington (UC-San Diego) and Amanda McCutcheon (U. of

Guam), Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI 2014 2013 Graduate student mentor: Emily Brault, John Schiff, UC-Santa Cruz 2013 Undergraduate mentor: Melissa Hanson, UC-Santa Cruz 2013 High school mentor: Anastasia Leopold, High School Summer Intern program, UC-

Santa Cruz 2012 Undergraduate mentor: Elizabeth Sonshine, Bates College Career Discovery in

Practice 2011 Thesis committee member: Carolynn Harris, Undergraduate honors thesis, Bates College 2010-11 High school mentor: MacKenzie Tasha, Falmouth High School Volunteer in Public

Schools (VIPS) 2008-11 MIT-WHOI Graduate Student mentor: Li Ling Hamady, Santiago Herrera, Katherine

Pitz, Maya Yamato Conference Presentations McMahon KW, McCarthy MD, Guilderson TP. Oral Presentation: “Decadal to century scale

changes in North Pacific Ocean phytoplankton communities assessed by δ13C compound-specific stable isotope analysis of deep-sea corals.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2014, Honolulu, HI, USA (Session 153 F organizer and chair)

McMahon KW, Berumen ML, Thorrold SR. Oral Presentation: “Unraveling carbon flow

pathways on coral reefs with compound specific stable isotope analysis.” 8th Annual Isotope Ecology Conference, August 2012, Brest, France

McMahon KW, Berumen ML, Thorrold SR. Oral Presentation: “Seascape connectivity in a Red

Sea coral reef ecosystem.” 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, July 2012, Cairns, Australia

McMahon KW, Berumen ML, Thorrold SR. Oral Presentation: “Functional connectivity of coral

reef fishes in a Red Sea coral reef seascape assessed by compound specific stable isotope analysis.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2012, Salt Lake City, UT, USA


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McMahon KW. Oral Presentation: “Functional connectivity of coral reef fishes in a Red Sea tropical seascape.” Living Oceans Foundation Symposium on Coral Reef Conservation in the Red Sea, January 2012, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

McMahon KW. Oral Presentation: “Ontogenetic migration and trophic dynamics.” Red Sea

Research Center Symposium, April 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

McMahon KW, Fogel ML, Thorrold SR. Poster Presentation: “A new tool for inferring trophic

interactions and fish movement using stable carbon isotope analysis of otolith amino acids.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2010, Portland, OR, USA

McMahon KW, Fogel ML, Mateo I, Thorrold SR. Oral Presentation: “Stable carbon isotope

analysis of amino acids in otolith protein: a new tool for tracking fish movement.” 4th International Otolith Symposium, August 2009, Monterey, CA, USA (Best Student Paper Award)

McMahon KW, Fogel ML, Elsdon TS, Thorrold SR. Oral Presentation: “Carbon isotope

fractionation of amino acids of a marine fish.” 33rd Annual Larval Fish Conference, July 2009, Portland, OR, USA (Sally Richardson Best Student Paper Award)

McMahon KW, Fogel ML, Elsdon TS, Thorrold SR. Oral Presentation: “Patterns in carbon

isotope fractionation of amino acids between diet and consumer in a model fish species.” 6th Annual Isotope Ecology Conference, August 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA

McMahon KW, Thorrold SR. Poster Presentation “Ocean ecogeochemistry applied to

connectivity analyses in marine populations.” Isoscapes Conference, April 2008, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

McMahon KW, Ambrose WG Jr., Johnson BJ, Sun M-Y., Lopez GR, Clough LM, Carroll M.

Oral Presentation: “The impacts of a changing food supply on Arctic benthos: digestibility of ice algae and phytoplankton.” 34th Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting. April 2005, Williamsburg, VA, USA

McMahon KW. Oral Presentation: “The Impacts of a changing food supply on Arctic benthos.”

Mount David Research Symposium, March 2005, Lewiston, ME, USA McMahon KW, Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG Jr. Poster Presentation: “Contributions of local food

items to the diet of Fundulus heteroclitus: analysis of δ13C/δ15N and gut contents.” 33rd Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting. March 2004, Mobile, AL, USA

McMahon KW. Poster Presentation: “Contributions of local food items to the diet of Fundulus

heteroclitus” Mount David Research Symposium, March 2004, Lewiston, ME, USA


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McMahon KW, Warren RS, Fell PE. Poster Presentation: “Impacts of Phragmites control on selected ecological functions within tidelands of the Lieutenant River.” Connecticut College Research Symposium, August 2003, New London, CT, USA

Coauthored Papers (# indicates student presentation) #Miles KW, Glynn DS, McMahon KW, McCarthy MD, Guilderson TP. “Investigating past ocean

ecosystem variability with δ13C and δ15N records in long lived deep-sea proteinaceous corals from the Central Equatorial Pacific. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA

#Glynn D, McCarthy MD, McMahon KW, Guilderson T. “Millennial scale oscillations in bulk

δ15N and δ13C over the Mid- to Late Holocene seen in proteinaceous corals from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA

Sherwood O, McMahon KW, Guilderson TP, McCarthy MD. “Late Holocene plankton domain

shifts in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre revealed by amino acid specific δ15N and δ13C records from proteinaceous deep-sea corals. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA

Soreide J, Iken K, Bluhm B, Gradinger R, Renaud PE, Tamelander T, Tremblay JE, Hop H,

Carroll ML, Ambrose WG Jr., McMahon KW, Wooler M, Dunton K. “Stable isotope baselines in marine food webs: A pan-Arctic review.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2014, Honolulu, HI, USA

Soreide J, Iken K, Bluhm B, Gradinger R, Renaud PE, Tamelander T, Tremblay JE, Hop H,

Carroll ML, Ambrose WG Jr., McMahon KW, Wooler M, Dunton K. “Stable isotope baselines in marine food webs: A pan-Arctic review.” Arctic Marine Science Symposium, January 2014, Anchorage, AK, USA

#Leopold A, Brault E, McMahon KW. “Variation in bulk δ13C and δ15N values of ancient

Antarctic seal bones.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA

Thorrold SR, McMahon KW, Berumen ML. “Revisiting the source of carbon fueling fisheries on

coral reefs.” 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, July 2012, Cairns, Australia Thorrold SR, McMahon KW, Berumen ML. “Revisiting the source of carbon fueling fisheries on

coral reefs.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 2012, Salt Lake City, UT, USA DesRosiers N, Noble, M, McMahon KW, Berumen ML. “Distribution patterns and ecology

of Amphiprion bicinctus in the central Red Sea, Saudi Arabia.” 2nd Asia-Pacific Coral Reef Symposium, June 2010, Phuket, Thailand

Ambrose WG, Carroll ML, Clough LM, Greenacre M, McMahon KW, Henkes G, Edgerly J

“Bivalve (Serripes groenlandicus) and gastropod (Neptunea heros) growth in coastal


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northwest Alaska reflects Arctic climate regime shifts and local environmental factors.” International Polar Year Open Science Conference, June 2010, Olso, Norway.

Skomal GB, Zeeman SI, Chisholm JH, Summers EL, Walsh HJ, McMahon KW, Thorrold SR.

“Mesopelagic trans-equatorial migrations by basking sharks in the western Atlantic Ocean” 25th Annual American Elasmobranch Society Meeting, July 2009, Portland, OR, USA

Carroll ML, Johnson BJ, Henkes GA, McMahon KW, Voronkov A, Ambrose WG Jr.,

Denisenko SG. “Environmental regulation of bivalve growth in the southern Barents Sea: A combined ecological and geochemical approach.” EGU General Assembly Conference, April 2009, Vienna, Austria

Graham B, Fry B, Popp B, Koch P, Newsome S, McMahon KW. “Using isoscapes to trace the

movements and foraging behavior of predators in oceanic ecosystems.” 6th Annual Isotope Ecology Conference, August 2008, Honolulu, HI, USA

Carroll ML, Denisenko SG, Voronkov A, Ambrose WG, Henkes G, McMahon KW. “Arctic bivalves as indicators of environmental variation from intra-annual to centennial timescales.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, ASLO, March 2008, Orlando, FL, USA

Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG, Henkes G, McMahon KW, Carroll ML. “Shifts in the δ13C of Serripes groenlandicus shell organic matter: A proxy for intra- and interannual changes in primary production in the Arctic?” National American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting, August 2007, Boston, MA, USA

Henkes GA, Ambrose WG Jr., Johnson BL, Carroll ML, McMahon KW, Denisenko SG,

Thorrold SR. “Tracing environmental variation over the past 130 years in the Barents Sea: Mineral ratio (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca, and Mn/Ca) evidence in shells of the circumpolar greenland cockle, Serripes groenlandicus.” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2007, San Francisco, CA, USA

Henkes GA, Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG, McMahon KW, Carroll ML, Hop H “Examining

environmental conditions in a Norwegian High Arctic Fjord: Evidence from Serripes groenlandicus (Bivalvia) growth rates and shell organic carbon isotope composition.” 1st International Sclerochronology Conference, July 2007, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Carroll ML, Ambrose WG, Greenacre M, Clough L, McMahon KW, Thorrold SR, Henkes GA,

Stinson L, Edgerly J. “Arctic bivalves as proxies of local and large-scale climatic variations: Analysis of pan-Arctic growth patterns.” 1st International Sclerochronology Conference, July 2007, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Carroll ML, Ambrose WG, Greenacre M, Clough LM, McMahon KW, Stinson L, Edgerly J, Thorrold S. “Arctic bivalves as proxies of local and large-scale climatic variations: Analysis of pan-Arctic growth patterns.” Ecosystems Dynamics in the Norwegian Sea


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and Barents Sea. March 2007, Tromsø Norway

Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG, McMahon KW, Carroll ML. “Shifts in the δ13C of Serripes groenlandicus shell organic matter: A proxy for intra- and interannual changes in primary production in the Arctic?” New England Geological Society American Annual Meeting. March 2007, Durham, NH, USA

Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG Jr., Henkes GA, McMahon KW, Carroll ML. “Shifts in the δ13C of

Serripes groenlandicus shell organic matter: A proxy for intra- and interannual changes in primary production in the Arctic?” American Chemical Society, 2007, Washington, D.C., USA

Johnson BJ, Ambrose WG, McMahon KW, Carroll ML. “Shifts in the δ13C of Serripes

groenlandicus shell organic matter: A proxy for intra- and interannual changes in primary production in the Arctic?” Arctic Frontiers Meeting, January 2007, Tromsö, Norway

Ambrose WG, Carroll ML, Nolan K, Retelle M, Greenacre M, McMahon KW. “Climate change on Svalbard: Evidence from modern and fossil bivalves.” Arctic Frontiers Meeting. January 2007, Tromsö, Norway

Clough LM, Ambrose WG, Betournay S, Carroll ML, Lopez GR, Meltzer K, Sun M-Y, McMahon KW, Richardson M. “The digestibility of ice algae and phytoplankton: Impacts on arctic benthic macrofauna.” Ocean Sciences Meeting. February 2006, Honolulu, HI, USA

Carroll ML, Ambrose WG, Greenacre M, McMahon KW, Thorrold SR. “Patterns of variation in bivalve frowth in a Norwegian High-Arctic Fjord: Evidence for local- and large-scale forcing.” American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Summer Meeting. June 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Ambrose WG, Carroll ML, Greenacre M, McMahon KW, Thorrold SR. ““Patterns of variation in bivalve frowth in a Norwegian High-Arctic Fjord: Evidence for local- and large-scale forcing.” 34th Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting. April 2005, Williamsburg, VA, USA

Carroll ML, Clough LM, Sun M-Y, Lopez GR, Ambrose WG, McMahon KW. “Response of Arctic benthic communities to variable food supplies associated with climatic change: Ice algae vs. phytoplankton.” Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Sciences. March 2005, Ventura, CA, USA

Invited Talks and Seminars Keck Science Department Seminar, February 2015, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA,

USA Center for Accelerated Mass Spectrometry Seminar, July 2014, Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA


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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Seminar, July 2014, University of Maryland, Solomons, MD,

USA Marine Biology Seminar, April 2014, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA Environmental Earth System Science Seminar, March 2014, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,

USA Environmental Systems Seminar, January 2014, University of California-Merced, Merced, CA

USA Environmental Earth System Science Seminar, December 2013, Stanford University, Palo Alto,

CA, USA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Seminar, November 2013, NOAA Fisheries Service, Santa

Cruz, CA, USA iDive SCUBA-Hack, August 2013, Marine Science and iOS developer workshop, San Francisco,

CA, USA Ocean Science Department Seminar, May 2013, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz,

CA, USA Red Sea Research Center Department Seminar, December 2012, King Abdullah University of

Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Biology Department Seminar, Oct 2012, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA Workshop II: Sampling animal tissues for stable isotope analysis, August 2012, 8th Annual Isotope

Ecology Conference, Brest, France. Workshop co-organizer and presenter. ARC Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies Seminar, June 2011, James Cook University,

Townsville, Australia Sea Education Association, June 2010, Woods Hole, MA, USA Biology Department Seminar, February 2010, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA Biology Department Seminar, November 2009, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods

Hole, MA Ocean Science Journalism Fellows Lecture, September 2009, Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA Biology Department Seminar, February 2009, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA


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Trustee and Corporation Member Lecture, October 2008, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,

Woods Hole, MA, USA Ocean Science Journalism Fellows Lecture, September 2008, Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Lecture, April 2005, Stony Brook University, Stony

Brook, NY, USA Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department Lecture, October 2004, Cornell University, Ithaca,

NY, USA Synergistic Activities 2014 Project Leader, Community College Research Internship for Scientific Engagement CC-

RISE, University of California – Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, June – August 2014) 2014 Organizer and Chair, Section F Session 153: Using Compound-Specific Stable Isotope

Analysis to Advance Population and Community Ecology, Ocean Sciences Meeting (Honolulu, HI, Feb 2014).

2014 Project member, Phoenix Islands Protected Area – Expedition Science Meeting

(Honolulu, HI, Feb 2014) 2013 Marine Science advisor, iDive SCUBA-Hack to develop apps for the new Apple iPad

underwater housing unit (iDive) in conjuction with iOS developers 2013 Project Leader, High School Summer Student Internship Program, University of

California – Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, June – December 2013). 2012 Co-Organizer, Workshop II: Sampling animal tissues for stable isotope analysis, 8th

Annual Isotope Ecology Conference (Brest, France, August 2012). 2012 Project Leader, Bates College Career Discovery in Practice, Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution (Woods Hole, MA, January 2012). 2010-2011 Member, Falmouth High School Volunteer in Public Schools (VIPS) (Falmouth,

MA). Manuscript reviewer for: Amino Acids, Aquaculture Research, Coral Reefs, Deep Sea Research, Environmental Science and Technology, Ecology, Ecosphere, Estuaries, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Journal of Sea Research, Limnology and Oceanography, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, PLOS One, Progress in Oceanography, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry


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Grant reviewer for: National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, Sea Grant Dive certifications: NAUI Advanced Open Water, NAUI Rescue Diver, NAUI Nitrox, NAUI Drysuit, IANTD Closed-Circuit rebreather Society membership: American Association for Underwater Scientists, American Fisheries Society, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Divers Alert Network, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, WHOI Postdoctoral Association Current as of February 2014 Letters of Reference Dr. Mathew McCarthy Dr. Simon Thorrold Dr. William Ambrose Jr. Associate Professor Senior Scientist Senior Professor Ocean Sciences Department Biology Department, MS # 50 Biology Department University of California Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Bates College Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Woods Hole, MA 02543 Lewiston, MS 04240 Ph: (831) 459-4718 Ph: (508) 289-3366 Ph: (207) 786-6114 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Marilyn Fogel Senior Professor School of Natural Sciences University of California Merced, CA 95343 Ph: 209-205-6743 [email protected]

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